DAN DEFRANCESCO joined The Journal News and LoHud.com in May of 2012. He graduated from Arlington High School in 2007 and SUNY Plattsburgh in 2011 with a degree in journalism. He's covered boys basketball, girls lacrosse and soccer for the paper, in addition to college athletics.

Our yeah you hear about that Connecticut border/Hudson River city region all of the time. Haldane which is next to Beacon, and Lourdes which is in Poughkeepsie, are in different leagues. But Pawling, North Salem and Brewster who have to drive past Mahopac, Carmel and Ketcham, are with Poughkeepsie and Beacon